ふらいんぐうぃっち 7

ふらいんぐうぃっち [Flying Witch] #7

by Chihiro Ishizuka, 石塚千尋

青森の夏祭り前夜祭"宵宮"に出かけた真琴たち。そこで再会したのは寝坊がちな『夏の運び屋』さん。この間のお詫びにと渡された別の世界の銘菓とは？　真琴が大事に育てていたマンドレイクになにやら異変！？　土のなかから出てきた意外な姿とは？　今日も青森では不思議がいっぱい！

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Slice Of Life, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Humor, Witches

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2018

Reviews

[J.a.e._Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toujours aussi chouette, doux et mignon

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute volume, but I wasn't as crazy about it as the other volumes so far. Seemed a little slow-going.

Summary for my reference:

Characters:

I am having SUCH a hard time keeping the characters straight. I have NO idea who the black haired girl with the glasses is. Or Akira - who is Akira?! Why couldn't I have started doing summaries before this?!

Akane - Makoto's older sister, an expert witch. She travels around a lot, but comes to visit Makoto in between. Her familiar is a white cat named Kenny.
Makoto - The main character; novice witch who has moved in with her relatives. Her familiar is a black cat named Chito.
Chinatsu - Kei's younger sister, Makoto's cousin. She loves Makoto and follows her everywhere and wants to know as much about magic as possible.
Anzu - (taken from wikipedia) A witch who lives nearby Kei and Chinatsu's house. While soft-spoken and somewhat reserved, she's an amateur archaeologist and has a love for history. She has a brown owl familiar named Aurore.
Kei - Makoto's male cousin, a relatively normal older brother and student.
Inukai - A fortune-teller; Akane accidentally cursed her so that she turns into a humanoid dog during the day and retains her human form at night. She has a hamster familiar.
Nao - Kei's friend, a regular girl. She takes all the magic stuff in stride.


Chapter 37: How the Witch Got Her Nickname - Akane visits a witch in China who has a secret stock. She is looking for a way to change Inukai back to human permanently. The potion is extremely expensive and can take years to make, because the ingredients are super rare and hard to get. Akane decides to get the ingredients herself, and succeeds! After some shenanigans, of course.

Chapter 38: Gift Basket from the Other Side - Makoto and Chinatsu find the Harbinger of Summer working at a hot dog stand and chat for a bit. Chinatsu invites him to do fireworks with their group that evening, and he agrees. He brings some "gems" which are actually diamonds, as it turns out, but he says they are candy (him being a dragon, they ARE candy for him). He teaches Makoto how to make them edible for humans and everyone has some.

Chapter 39: The Dog's Nephew is the Master - Akane and Makoto visit Inukai so that Akane can give her the potion she made to cure her. However, Inukai's sister and nephew are visiting, and her nephew adores her dog form and does not recognize or accept her human form as his aunt. Inukai struggles with wanting to be cured.

Chapter 40: Runner Plants - Nao visits the Kuramoto place and mentions her dad's back is bothering him. Makoto offers to make him something with the mandrake she had earlier; she replanted it. This is the chapter with the girl with black hair and glasses, and I do not remember who she is for a single second. ugh. Who are you?! Anyway, Makoto goes out to her garden and discovers what actually grew isn't mandrakes. Chinatsu gets home from school around this time and chases one of the little plant guys around the house. The girls finally round them all up and Makoto remembers she put ash from a talking fire over the mandrake when she replanted it, so that must be why they grew differently. But they are sentient, so she can't just harvest them. Instead, she looks it up on "tips for witches" and decides to boil them, which won't hurt them but will leech out some of their medicinal ingredient. However, this means it will take her a month to make the medicine, but by that time Nao's dad's back will probably be better. Oh, well!

Chapter 41: The Way to a Witch's Heart is Through Her Liver - Makoto's aunt takes her to a market, where she finds lots of ingredients for her spells. She buys a bunch of dried foods. In the car, Makoto and her aunt talk a bit, and Makoto mentions that she is getting better with magic in general during her stay. They pass a tent where a float is being built for an upcoming festival, and Auntie knows the person in charge so they stop by to take a look. Inexplicably, Akane is there, having followed an apparent whim. Makoto leaves her sister some of the dried foods she bought and her and autie leave just as Akane and the workers are about to have a little mini party and drink. At home, Makoto makes a mini sun for the little plant guys (who are being babysat by the cats, haha) and they love it. Makoto knows Akane will be getting too drunk about now, though, and heads back to pick her up and take her home. Sure enough, Akane is plastered and the other workers are trying to be responsible and not drink since they work the next day. Makoto gives her a snack she enchanted which instantly sobers her up and causes the alcohol to steam off of her.

Chapter 42: See Not, Hear Not, Speak Not - Makoto and Akira (another character I don't remember at all, seriously I have no idea who this person is) go to a hot springs and meet a news lady who is investigating paranormal happenings. Akira mentions the "rabbit rule" to Makoto, which makes it so that when a "gossipy" or "media" person investigates witches, things will happen naturally to make it impossible for them to find anything out. To demonstrate, Akira agrees to an interview with the news lady, but different mishaps keep happening (camera breaking, monkeys stealing her recorder, etc.) to prevent the interview from actually taking place.

[Freya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review to come :)

[Sophia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chihiro's creativity with spinning classic magical creatures and items is a huge inspiration for my own writing, like the little mandrake babies! They were the cutest things, I'll tell ya.

[Cynthia Nicola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet, simple read.

[Le0 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume sees some interesting continuations from earlier stories: Akane's ongoing efforts to lift the enchantment on Inukai, return of the Harbinger of Summer, and the return of the mandrake. Also, the final chapter where the author is sort of like, "oh, right, I set it up that witches are supposed to be secret, but Makoto hasn't been very discreet about it at all; I should probably address that."

It remains fun, but it just didn't click with me really. I think it is more me than the book, but so it goes.

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is it ironic that on the heels of a YALSA award (announced at the end of this volume) we get an ecchi-light hot spring story? This was a fun, and needed reread, as I’m reading a really heavy book and needed to find a soothing interruption. The ”evolved” mandrakes are too adorable! I need a plushy! And Inukai’s crisis with her transformation curse cure was the best! So sweet! Beautifully simple line work from Ishizuka sensei keeps this series always charming.

[Loz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Delightful, cute, and fun. Whimsical world building. Charming characters.

[Krystal Caloia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Runner Plants! "Mah" So cute!!!! I love these books!!!

[Liz (Quirky Cat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summary:

Makoto Kowata is a witch. Or rather, she's a witch in training. As such, she has packed up all her belongings (and cat) to live with distant relatives. It's a bit of a family tradition – a way of sending young witches out into the world - but in a gentler way.

It's time to head out to the yomiya – a night festival. Of course, given this crew, it's only natural for them to come across the Harbinger of Summer (who tends to oversleep). Meanwhile, gardening mayhem brings a new witchy perspective to the farm.

Review:

Seven volumes in, and I still can't get over how fun and endearing this series is. Flying Witch Vol. 7 is everything I had hoped and expected – a casual romp through the countryside with witches, creatures, and more.

I enjoyed the take on the Harbinger of Summer. It was a quirky detail that fit in so perfectly with the whole series. Likewise, the (mis)adventure with the mandrakes was just as funny, though I'm not going to talk about them too much (to avoid spoilers).

Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out what else I can say that has yet to be covered in previous volume reviews. The series is a steady constant of slice-of-life storytelling in such a calming way. It's the perfect series to chill and read.

Highlights:
Slice-of-life
Witchy Tale
Cat Familiar

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[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5

Another enjoyable read!

I don’t really have anything bad to say about this volume story wise - really enjoyed the story about Mako & Aunt Nana going to the market and happening about Akane randomly joining a float making team (and getting drunk) 😂.

The one with the sentient cute mandrakes was another favourite!

Could’ve done without the nudity especially considering Mako is meant to be a teenager - not a fan of that and don’t think it was necessary even if it was depicting a bath house at a hot spring. The actual story of the reporter meeting them at the hot spring being thwarted by the “Rabbit Rule” was quite funny though.

[Dita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun read. Entertaining from beginning till the end.
The witch stuff is getting more and more exciting and interesting.
Akane's journey to China to find potion to fix Inukai. Harbinger of summer with his delicious gems. Cute little mandrakes creatures. Journalist who's investigating weird phenomenon. Yups lots of fun thing full of magic happening in this book and love seeing Makoto's power grow each day.
My fav still Chinatsu's excitement and curiosity though, always put a big smile on my face.

[J B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another volume of flying witch, another volume I thoroughly enjoyed! Any time we see Miss Inukai is a pleasure, as is any further information we get about how magic works in this world! There is a panel where Makoto says “I feel like I’m learning new things every day, and I’m always having fun.” and that sums up my experience reading the series this far! Makoto’s enthusiasm is infectious, and she is always just finds amazement in what others may see as mundane. I can wait to start the next volume!

[Lauren Schnoebelen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

Fun and wholesome like all the other volumes. Loved the mandrakes in this one; they put such a smile on my face. I really like that throughout this series you learn about the world of witches and magic and the rules and spells that go along with it but at the same tj was see that witches have the freedom to tweak magic and create new spells when they want. Lots of fun and hate that I have to wait so long for the next volume to come out!

[Christyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 Stars

I enjoyed getting to catch up with the cast of Flying Witch. This series is easy to read, with very little drama or negativity in them which is appreciated at times. I do miss the earlier volumes which was very centered on the family, but I do like seeing familiar characters as they grow. If you’re new to the series, I wouldn’t recommend starting with this volume since there are quite a few faces that won’t make sense unless you’ve followed the series.

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another cute volume! This one has Akane off to China to meet with a witch to try and get a potion that is difficult to make and expensive but after some entertaining shenanigans she succeeds. The reason for this potion, well read the book and find out! Beyond that story line we have adorable mandrake babies! Who knew that could be a thing. Also we get to see the "rabbit rule" in full effect which stops people from being able to find out or record magic happenings.

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Makoto has to deal with some possibly sentient baby mandrakes and a reporter snoops around.

Adorable as usual, but this was my least favorite in the series so far. This is probably because Makoto wasn't the central figure of several of the stories. Her sister is ok, but I want more Makoto! I'll still be reading the next in the series.

[Deeny · Rating 5 out of 5]

🥺I did’t want it to end this was so cool and fun and the Magic world is so much more open and side characters are more flushed out. I had so much fun I really don’t want to series to end. I know there are more but this was my last volume for now lol.

[Raechel · Rating 4 out of 5]

The cousins discover new ways of growing magical plants, a cure for curses, and how reporters don't break the news about magic. The characters are showing more depth and inner thoughts. The series has the perfect amount of serious, humor, and fantasy to keep me invested.

[BeckyisBookish · Rating 5 out of 5]

So happy to read the newest volume! As cure and happy as all the rest, it will hard waiting for volume 8!

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

I CANNOT handle these baby mandrakes they are too precious

[Anastacia · Rating 5 out of 5]

cute

[MIL · Rating 4 out of 5]

陷入要不要再買一套中文的困難抉擇中
總之放棄英文版看中文第七集了

[Ally (AllyEmReads)]

I love how we keeping getting more pieces of lore about the witches!

[Amanda K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little by little we are getting more world building. My favorite thing in this volume were the mandrakes. Episodic slice of life.

[DonutKnow · Rating 4 out of 5]

The art is so cute! ❤️

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[David Doel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good entry to the series, especially when a reporter shows up.

[Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume was cute and fun - the mandrakes are adorable.